Background

God Dethroned was formed by mainman Henri Sattler in 1990. After one demo they released their debut album “The Christhunt” in 1992 on a tiny German label. Due to problems with the other band members and the record company, Henri decided to split the band. He then formed Ministry Of Terror and released the “Fall Of Life” album with them in 1994. After a European tour Henri left the band and re-formed God Dethroned. With new band members and better songs in his back, Henri and the new God Dethroned recorded “The Grand Grimoire” and inked a deal with Metal Blade. Many successful tours followed in Europe, the U.S. and Japan with great Death and Black Metal acts like Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immortal, and Marduk, just to name a few.

In the meantime most of the renowned festivals were played: Dynamo Open Air, Wacken, Graspop and Summer Breeze. Drummer Roel Sanders left the band after the US tour promoting “Bloody Blasphemy”. Nile’s Tony Laureano played on the “Ravenous” album, but couldn’t stay. Janne from The Crown played on the tour and finally new drummer Ariën van Weesenbeek came in, whose first recording experience with the band was “Into the Lungs of Hell”.

Bassist Beef and guitar player Jens didn’t have the motivation any more to keep on touring and playing, so they decided to call it quits after about 8 years. About 2 months before the recording of “The Lair of the White Worm” bass player Henk joined the band, and 2 weeks before the recording axeman Isaac came in.

Latest God Dethroned News

Below is our complete God Dethroned news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.

Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.

"In a surprise move - surprising to us anyway - Bolt Thrower have decided to take along not us, but a different band as their support on the second leg of their European tour. That sucks, because we were really looking forward to this. It also means that, for the second time in 40 days, we have to lick our wounds, put up a message like this one, and apologize to our fans in the UK, Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal for again disappointing them. It seems that, for some reason, we just can't find the right opportunities to properly tour/promote/support La Muerte. This pisses us off mightily, but if anything, it's putting us in the right state of mind to write some seriously pissed off music for the next album.

"So for now, it's back to the drawing board and try and set up some shows in the aforementioned countries. Be sure to check back here to see them cancelled!"

Supporting Bolt Thrower on their European tour will come from God Dethroned for the first part of the tour and Kataklysm for the remainder of the tour.

Guitarist Isaac Delahaye has posted the following tour recap on the official God Dethroned website:

"We're back from our European headline tour. Satisfied & tired. Every show was great in its own way. Thanx to everyone who made this possible: Max Marzocca & Joël Decoster from Black Box Bookings, Natron & crew, the God Dethroned crew Ozzy & Keez Himself, and of course everyone who was there to get infected with our disease. We've got a lot of video footage for the bonus DVD of the next album, so you'll be able to have a look behind the scene. Next saturday we've got our last club show; after that we'll focus on the new album. We'll keep you updated 'bout this! Cheers,isaac"

God Dethroned vocalist/guitarist Henri "TSK" Sattler has posted the following update on the band's official website:

"Hey Worms !

"Some new shows coming up this month. This time in Holland for a change. The first summer festival has been confirmed. It's the Kaltenbach Open Air festival in Austria. And hopefully some more festivals to come.

"Those of you who have missed us on The Tourturing Europe tour with The Haunted and God Forbid will (with a bit of luck) get another chance to see us live soon.

"In the second half of February we will do another European tour with fellow deathsters Natron from Italy. Not everything is totally confirmed yet, but it looks good. We'll keep you posted and just check out our tourdates section on a regular basis.

"Natron was supposed to tour with Deranged from Sweden, but they had to cancel. And since sitting at home doing nothing is never good we were willing to fill in the gap.

"Speaking about doing nothing. The writing of a new album is in the works. Some really cool stuff has been composed and we're planning on having it done in two months or so.Right, enough said, now it's time for a beer !

God Dethroned will be supporting The Haunted and God Forbid on their upcoming European Tourturing tour, starting November 17th. God Dethroned's show in Mannheim, Germany on November 19th will still happen as planned, but unfortunately the Anrochte, Germany show will be cancelled because of this tour.

Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED have posted the following message on their official web site:

"Hailz to all the mighty worms who visited us during our U.S. & Canadian trip the last five weeks! We had a great fuckin' time on the road and it was cool to meet some old friends and fans again and to meet loads of new ones! Unfortunately, a few shows were cancelled. We don't know why, but for all of you who showed up for nothing, sorry, but it was totally beyond our control. Also many thanx to everyone who attended our shows at the European summer festivals. You guys fucking ruled!Right now we are already working on new material for another album. We are planning to enter the studio in January 2006 latest. We can't wait to go back out on the road again. See you guys soon! Cheers!"

GOD DETHRONED's most recent album, "The Lair of the White Worm", was released last November via Metal Blade Records.

In a message posted on their website, God Dethroned explain why they didn't show up on Germany's Hell's Pleasure Fest. Their bassist, Henk "Henke" Zinger, had to stay in Holland cause he had been in hospital after a tooth surgery and wasn't able to do anything without pain. The band decided to play the festival without him, but with their sound engineer. However, on the way to the festival, their van broke down and the band did not make it to the festival. God Dethroned apologizes to all their fans who were there but didn't get to see them.

More dates have been announced for this fall's "International Extreme Music Festival" North American tour. The five-week trek, which is scheduled to begin in September, will include appearances by GOD DETHRONED, NIGHTRAGE, BYZANTINE, EPOCH OF UNLIGHT, HELL WITHIN, THINE EYES BLEED and LILITU. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

The first dates have been announced for this fall's "International Extreme Music Festival" North American tour. The five-week trek, which is scheduled to begin in September, will include appearances by GOD DETHRONED, NIGHTRAGE, BYZANTINE, EPOCH OF UNLIGHT, HELL WITHIN and LILITU. The initial dates are as follows:

NIGHTRAGE guitarist Marios Illiopoulos has commented on the band's participation in this fall's "International Extreme Music Festival" North American tour. The five-week trek, which is scheduled to begin in September, will include additional appearances by GOD DETHRONED, BYZANTINE, EPOCH OF UNLIGHT, HELL WITHIN and LILITU.

Stated Illiopoulos: "We are very happy to announce our participation on the fifth time of the IMEF. This is a first time for NIGHTRAGE having the chance to explore the USA territories and we feel extremely excited about this offer. We are going to give the best we are capable of and make everybody love our performances.

"NIGHTRAGE is coming, my friends, in full speed. Prepare for the best."

Exact cities and dates - which will include stops in Mexico and Colombia - will be announced soon.

NIGHTRAGE recently parted ways with vocalist Tomas Lindberg (ex-AT THE GATES, THE CROWN) due to scheduling conflicts. Replacing Lindberg on the microphone is Jimmie Strimell.

NIGHTRAGE's sophomore album, "Descent Into Chaos", was released earlier this year via Century Media Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Sweet Vengeance" was mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producer Patrik J. Sten and was mastered at Tailor Maid Production in Stockholm with Peter in de Betou.

God Dethroned, Byzantine, Nightrage, Hell Within, Epoch of Unlight and Lilitu are part of the "International Extreme Music Festival." This is the 5th time the tour has launched in North America and is one of the most respected avant-garde Metal tours of its kind. IEMF is sponsored by Metal Edge / Metal Maniacs / Blabbermouth.net / Blistering.com and info can be found at: www.IEMFTour.com. Dates to follow shortly.

Origin has been confirmed as the headlining band at Ohio Deathfest 2005, as the group brings their decidedly punishing brand of technical death metal before an audience with an appetite for skull-crushing extreme music at one of the premier metal festivals in the United States.

Ohio Deathfest 2005 will be held at the Phantasy Concert Club in Lakewood, Ohio on June 24th and 25th. Other acts slated to appear include Summon, (who are fresh from a European Tour with God Dethroned), New York's Pyrexia, Mortal Decay, Prophecy and the ever entertaining Meat Shits.

Dutch death metallers God Dethroned have posted this message on their official website:

In order to keep all of you metalheads posted about what's going on in the lair of GD... let's drop a line!

Today we have our final rehearsal for the upcoming White Worm tour. So we've got one shot left to nail down some forgotten songs from previous albums and to work on our funky hip-haap moves (muhaha!) The new merchandise is also ready to hit the road! Some prints are very limited and will be sold exclusively on the next tour, so grab your chance! Well, we're ready to spread some bloody blasphemy the next couple of weeks, and we expect you to be there, banging off your balls & getting pretty drunk.

Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED have posted the following message:

ANOREXIA NERVOSA will not be joining us on our European tour of the White Worm. If there are bands out there who would like to take their place, and have a record label who can support them, then feel free to contact us for details. The tour starts on March 26 in Belgium and ends on the 9th or 10th of April. The last shows are being booked right now.

Also, the video is ready! No fancy shit, just pure underground black & white blasphemy. The video (Lair of the White Worm) will be put on the website soon.

Dark Tranquillity and Caliban are the latest acts confirmed for the 2005 edition of the Summer Breeze festival, set to be held August 18-20 in Abtsgmünd, Germany. The complete list of artists currently confirmed to appear at the festival is as follows:

Swedish death metal Godfathers Grave are back on stage in your area to promote their new album “Fiendish Regression.” Don’t miss these shows by one of the best and most genuine old school death metal outfits around.

Norwegian metal band Tristania are the latest act confirmed for the 2005 edition of the Summer Breeze festival, set to be held August 18-20 in Abtsgmünd, Germany. Also set to appear at the festival are Impious, Krisiun, The Vision Bleak, Suidakra, Ektomorf, Amon Amarth, Maroon, Symphorce, Born From Pain, Endstille, Lacrimas Profundere, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, End of Green, Atrocity, Haggard, Final Breath, God Dethroned, Subway to Sally and The Bones. More confirmations will be announced during the coming days.

Tristania will support Nightwish on a 10-date run through the U.K., Belgium and Germany beginning in mid-February. A South American tour with Dark Tranquillity and Kreator will follow in March.

Tristania's new album, "Ashes", is scheduled for release on January 24, 2005 through SPV Records.